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I have a sentence:
来年にはテレフォニカが製品投入へ。
This is translated by Google:
Telefonica is to rollout next year.
Where is the verb in this sentence as 製品投入 looks like "noun" + "noun"? And what is へ doing after the 投入.
I know that in Chinese 投入 can be both verb and noun, but japanese dictionary says it's a noun only.
Without additional context, this sounds like a newspaper headline or something similar. In which case, the へ would act as "to" or "toward", implying the direction the Telefonica company will take in their business. Something like
"Telefonica to head toward product investment next year"
Again, if it's a headline or something, the verb is omitted yet implied. Probably something like 向かう or would be appropriate; although if it were the latter, the 移動するする would also likely be omitted
来年にはテレフォニカが製品投入へ（向かう） or
来年にはテレフォニカが製品投入へ（移動（する））
